The first book in an occult-noir detective series by Bill Koch (Kadmus)

Academic art historians have a way of "discovering" artists who they have, themselves, neglected or even casually obscured for decades.

The act of feeling and quietly noticing and acknowledging is something of an act of resistance, of saying yes to living and life.

From Rhyd Wildermuth: The world is a mess and will only get worse. But that world? It isn't our world.

What are we actually for? What is the goal that we are working towards? Is mere survival, or even acceptance within the status quo, enough?

Mapping power as a continuum of symbolic authority, tracing the evolution and performance of legitimacy — from altar to throne, from sanctity to sovereignty —, is a cultural and political critique exposing how public reverence for religious and royal figures acts as a symbolic veil concealing the violent continuities of colonialism, neocoloniality, and capitalism.

Words like “health,” “liberation,” and “manifestation,” once felt so vibrant.

“By protecting turtles, we are, in fact, defending the possibility of a healthy future for all, where nature can exist in balance.”

Connection comes from the heart. The most perfect guidelines and group agreements fail when the heart is not engaged.

What influenced us to become involved with neo-paganism and the magical arts?

"A wonderfully inventive, compulsively readable and brilliantly controlled feat of gothic imagination." - Carl Neville

As May Day and Beltane fast approach, now is the perfect time to talk about morris dancing.

Tired of trying and failing to perform any role,

Has said they are nothing at all –

Nothing but someone who now knows the name of

The pheasant berries

The frontier of space is now a reality of human experience, but we can rest assured that, despite the best efforts of authoritarians everywhere, perverts, artists, and kooks of all kinds will utilize the frontier of space to find new ways to express their immense amounts of creativity, not just in sex but in music, poetry, sculpture, philosophy, drug use, painting, science, and storytelling.

There is just tourism and our ability (or lack thereof) to suffer it.

“a necromantic spell, a feat of psychic surgery performed on a civilization” — J.F. Martel of Weird Studies

The poison itself may be part of the medicine.

From a place of peace / the now radical act of tenderness / refuses to reduce itself / to wordy explanations.

An excerpt from A Demonology of Desires: The Rejected Dissertation of the Notoriously Disgraced Folklorist Joseph Geistberg, by Joe Grim Feinberg

If our time at the beach is primarily understood as rest and relaxation, if it is a way of escaping the urban suffering that accompanies our days, then we are clearly the descendants of those who fled the factory for the beach some two hundred years ago.